The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1887-12-15
Rise Above Faction.
Lake Charles Commercial.

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Lake Charles Commercial.
"The interests of the State must
rise above ion."-GovERNoR 8. d.
MoENERY.
If you are right in this, and we be-
lieve you are right then, Governor,
you have nothing else to do but step
down and out. You have uttered
your own condemnation. The inter-
ests of the State and of the Demo-
cratic party are no longer safe in your
hands; because you have been fac
ZIONIST from the moment you took
the oath as Governor to this day,
when you are delivering speeches all
over the State, not in the interest of
the United Democracy, but to retain
in power the State administration
faction of ringsters, of which you are
the fgure-head. You have displayed,
heretofore, none of those superior
qualities which enables a statesman
and a patriot to rise above faction
You could not do it, if you desired it;
because your whole political career
as Governor, is a lamentable illustra-
ton of your inability to govern by
yourself. You are the creature of a
faction, and nothing else. Without
the insinuating and smiling Burke.
our perpetual Treasurer, to hold you
up on ore side, and the fierce and
growing Houston to encourage you
on the other, you would drop power
less to the ground, and the ''bubble"
of your political reputation would
burst into thin air!
/ Rise above faction! Say you?-
What do you call the meetings you
have held at Monroe, at Robeline, at
Shreveport, and at other places, where
J you have distorted the truth of his
tory in order to array one part of our
Democratic people against the other,
if not factional assemblies of the
worst sort? When and where have
you spoken one word in favor of con-
Citation, union aud harmony
Never! You have represented your-
sey as the Democracy, and you have
treated all Democrats who have
enough independence to prefer anoth-
er man to you, as mug-wumps, boilers,
traitors, and little better than negro
, Republicans! You have attempted
to drive them out of the Democratic
party, time and again. Your system
! of prescription having failed, you
are now using abuse and vituperation.
, It requires much greater and q
much stronger man than you, Cover
nor, to rise above faction. Your very
/ political existence is absolutely de-
pendent upon the factious ring OF
hungry politicians you have organic
ed around you. Let only Burke drop
! you, and where are you? Your pop
ularity is only apparent. It is not
self-sustaining. 1t needs to be pro.
, claimed in trumpet tones to be known;
, it needs to be supported by the Office
holders at your back, not to fall to
pieces. The close and impenetrable
ring which surrounds you, is the
only certain element of your strength.
!, Let only this ring be broken up and
parted, and you viii find no man to
praise you, not even among those you
have SO long preferred to your other
brother Democrats.
In conclusion, we beg leave to as
sure you, in candor and in truth,
Governor, your own mistakes are
nothing compared to the crimes these
men have committed against the
rights and privileges of Democrts in
Louisiana. They have lost you the
respect of one-half of the Democracy.
You have surrendered to ring all
your authority, ali your power and
all your prerogatives, which have
been used to estrange you from the
good popular heart of the honest
Democracy of the State To this
ring, you are chained. To the man
who can break this ring or part this
chain, the eternal gratitude of the
Democracy will be due. Will you
and can you do it? That is the ques-
ton the people desire you to answer.
General Nichols left the Office of